Alice Channer
‘There is a politics to what gets recognized as sculpture. For artists who insist on the vulnerability of their forms, who show us objects still entangled with their production processes, the stakes are high.’
born 1977 in Oxford. Lives and works in London.
Alice Channer’s forms and materials are found in the social and sensual worlds of industrial and organic processes. She immerses herself in natural and industrial materials and production processes to find forms that she develops as sculpture.
In 2021, Channer was commissioned to make a number of new public sculptures; ‘Lethality and Vulnerability’ for Artangel’s summer exhibition at Orford Ness; ’Nanowires’, her first permanent public sculpture, for the Engineering Department of The University of the West of England and ‘Rockpool’, an outdoor sculpture in the Mojave desert, for High Desert Test Sites 2022, California, USA.
Selected Exhibitions:
Hamburger Kunsthalle, DE (group); Royal Academy, London, UK (group, 2022). Liverpool Biennial, UK (group, 2021). Marta Herford, DE (group); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (group, 2021). Tate Britain, London, UK (group); Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK (group); Ca’Pesaro, Venice, IT (group, 2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (group); La Panacée MoCo, Montpellier, FR (group); Museum Morsbroich, DE (group); Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (group, 2018). Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US (solo); Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE (group, 2017). Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE (group); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (group, 2016). Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, LB (group); Public Art Fund, New York, US (2015); Fridericianum, Kassel, DE (group); Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE (group, 2014). The 55th Venice Biennale, IT (group); Kunstverein Freiburg, DE (solo); The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK (solo, 2013) and South London Gallery, UK (solo, 2012).
born 1977 in Oxford. Lives and works in London.
Alice Channer’s forms and materials are found in the social and sensual worlds of industrial and organic processes. She immerses herself in natural and industrial materials and production processes to find forms that she develops as sculpture.
In 2021, Channer was commissioned to make a number of new public sculptures; ‘Lethality and Vulnerability’ for Artangel’s summer exhibition at Orford Ness; ’Nanowires’, her first permanent public sculpture, for the Engineering Department of The University of the West of England and ‘Rockpool’, an outdoor sculpture in the Mojave desert, for High Desert Test Sites 2022, California, USA.
Selected Exhibitions:
Hamburger Kunsthalle, DE (group); Royal Academy, London, UK (group, 2022). Liverpool Biennial, UK (group, 2021). Marta Herford, DE (group); Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK (group, 2021). Tate Britain, London, UK (group); Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK (group); Ca’Pesaro, Venice, IT (group, 2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (group); La Panacée MoCo, Montpellier, FR (group); Museum Morsbroich, DE (group); Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK (group, 2018). Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, US (solo); Kunsthaus Hamburg, DE (group, 2017). Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE (group); Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (group, 2016). Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, LB (group); Public Art Fund, New York, US (2015); Fridericianum, Kassel, DE (group); Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, DE (group, 2014). The 55th Venice Biennale, IT (group); Kunstverein Freiburg, DE (solo); The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK (solo, 2013) and South London Gallery, UK (solo, 2012).
Website
alicechanner.com
News
‘Alice Channer: Heavy Metals / Silk Cut’, Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle Appenzell, 2 July– 8 October 2023
Press
Flash Art, ‘Alice Channer ‘Megaflora’ Large Glass/London’, Alex Bennett, 28 May 2021
The Art Newspaper, ‘Interview: I weaponise glamour… I see clothes as a kind of armour that can change and mutate’, Louisa Buck, 19 April 2021
Art Monthly, ‘Alice Channer: Megaflora’, Chloe Carroll, June 2021
Artforum.com, ‘Critics Pick: In the Labyrinth at Large Glass’, Emily LaBarge, February 2019
The Art Newspaper, ‘Diary: Get lost in the myths and mazes of Large Glass's labyrinthine show’, Louisa Buck, 11 February 2019
The Guardian, ‘We gotta get out of this place! The artists snared by the lure of the labyrinth’, Charlotte Higgins, 3 February 2019
The Telegraph, ‘Alice Channer celebrates the intricate shape of the shell at Large Glass’, Louisa Buck, 6 April 2018
The Art Newspaper, ‘Diary: Large Glass celebrates its fifth birthday with a Duchamp fest’, Louisa Buck, 2 December 2016
alicechanner.com
News
‘Alice Channer: Heavy Metals / Silk Cut’, Kunstmuseum / Kunsthalle Appenzell, 2 July– 8 October 2023
Press
Flash Art, ‘Alice Channer ‘Megaflora’ Large Glass/London’, Alex Bennett, 28 May 2021
The Art Newspaper, ‘Interview: I weaponise glamour… I see clothes as a kind of armour that can change and mutate’, Louisa Buck, 19 April 2021
Art Monthly, ‘Alice Channer: Megaflora’, Chloe Carroll, June 2021
Artforum.com, ‘Critics Pick: In the Labyrinth at Large Glass’, Emily LaBarge, February 2019
The Art Newspaper, ‘Diary: Get lost in the myths and mazes of Large Glass's labyrinthine show’, Louisa Buck, 11 February 2019
The Guardian, ‘We gotta get out of this place! The artists snared by the lure of the labyrinth’, Charlotte Higgins, 3 February 2019
The Telegraph, ‘Alice Channer celebrates the intricate shape of the shell at Large Glass’, Louisa Buck, 6 April 2018
The Art Newspaper, ‘Diary: Large Glass celebrates its fifth birthday with a Duchamp fest’, Louisa Buck, 2 December 2016